Analysis of Survival



                                    Survival
                                            By
                                      Latoya kidd

I am going to tell you about life.
In life you got to do what you got to do to survive
Life is like monopoly.
Each player makes a move, so you got to be ready to make that move.
I can be there to hold your hand and protect you forever.
The only person you got to rely on is yourself.
Everyone wants that American dream.
But it is not going to be handed to you.
You got to do what you got to obtain that American dream.
You go rondo what you have to do to obtain that American dream.
In the real world nobody can be trusted
The only person you got to trust is yourself.
I was locked up for five years and I did not know the rule of survival.
My cell mate taught me.
The rules of survival
And I am going to teach it to you.
I don’t want you to slip like I did and wind up in the system.
You always got to be on your toes.
 I am going to give you own.
Take care of it and never lose it.
It will help you survive life
It’s a jungle and you got to be a lion
I got to go
I am your dad and this is the last time you will see me
Bye and never forget what I taught you abou


Scheme AXB CXDXXEFGFFBEADAGXXXXCXXDG
Poetic Form
Metre 010 1 0101 1110111011 01111111111101 1110100 11010111111101111 111111110011010 01010111011101 101101001 111110111011 1111111101101001 11111111101101001 001111110 010101111101 111111101111011010 11111 011010 0111011111 1111111110110010 11111111 11101111 111101011 1111011 101001111010 1111 11110110111111 101001111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,232
Words 265
Sentences 18
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 25
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 415
Words per stanza (avg) 119
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Written on May 10, 2023

Submitted by Latoyakidd23 on May 10, 2023

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Latoya Kidd

Latoya Kidd has been writing stories since she was in high school. She met a student who inspired her to become a writer and he is her inspiration. When Latoya graduated from Central High school in 2000, she enrolled in Prince George’s Community College. She met a man who was also her instructor, Barry McCalla. He helped shape her writing and the result is that Latoya got her first fiction story published called ‘Waiting for my African Prince to Return’. Latoya has published other fiction stories like ‘Backdoor Woman’. All of these fiction stories were published in Reflection magazine at Prince George’s Community college. Latoya has also published fictions, non-fictions and poems in the Amulet magazine, Conceit magazine, Ultimate Writer magazine, and the Spiritual Magazine. more…

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